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Baloo
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A lotta folks think hot rods started right after WW II. Wrong-o! Hotting up your personal car with your own 2 hands is an old American tradition (of course, any tradition older than you are is old in America! ). As early as 1910, people were sending off to the Chevrolet brothers for speed parts to hop up their model T. If you bought all the parts and followed their directions, you could do 100 MPH! (Now doesn't THAT sound safe in a car that has teeny-weeny drum brakes on the rear axle only?)

Go have a look. There's a bunch o' crazy people who are still keeping the tradition alive (click on the pic)!

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[This message has been edited by Baloo (edited September 22, 1999).]


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PsyLiam
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Of course, if you put a Matrix in it, it'd turn into a Winnebago.

Oh, never mind.

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